Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Heavy Hitter. xD

Dear future Seeing Adjacent Angles Students,
This course is somethin worth venturing down if you wanna attempt to tap into that creative juicebox of yours or just simply want to know the answers to questions within yourself. The good thing about this class is that Beth's the shit, and you don't have to start finding answers alone.
Walking down this course you will come across various "obstacles" that can easily be bullshitted through but possibly even harder to get through if you so choose to actually dig deep and find obstacles of truth within these crazy ass facade ridden ones. It's up to you how you wanna be impacted. All in all, I personally see this as a philosophy class of Media Arts and Science.
What I picked up off this short, dusty course with wondrous scenery and winding roads, was a slap in the ass that said, "You got potential to take in knowledge; duh! But understand when the time is right, harness that shit, and go forth to create." I learned to be patient. I'm taking in information on how to do everything that I love to do. I'm taking it in from other people's progress and what professors have to show and say. I've learned that we as people can do whatever the fuck it is that we want, but we also have to be able to give ourselves time to grow and understand what it is that we want to do.
After traveling along this interesting course I've picked up a few things here and there. I've decided that I'm going to wonder off of future courses and actually take a stroll through the woods. In those woods I'm gonna try to take what I've learned so far and explore and when I make mistakes, I'm gonna show up the next day and show what I got so far and DUN DUN DUNNN learn some more. :) AKA it helps to learn something from class and then further explore it outside of class. Enty who!
Have a hell of a time,
Brittany Mathews
P.S.
Don't drop the soap or you will get got! xD ha haha....
P.S.S.
jk... ((i'm not)) But in all seriousnessness ness ness..... Take control of the class and give no FUCKS about what anybody might think. After going through years of lecture based classes and instructional learning, you earned the freedom to do and say whatever in class. This is the class to do that in. Enjoy it to its fullest while you have the chance... in a class-like setting. xD

Monday, May 2, 2011

Research and thangeh thangs!!!!! :D ((this is what you get when you gets no sleep!!!))

Very helpful links and what not. With these links I was able to expand my knowledge of Tengu. I think it's just as important to know the origins of something as it is to know what it is today.... also it's good to know more about the subject before I get it as a tattoo. xD



Monday, April 18, 2011

Reflecting Sideways.

I found it hard to be creative when it called for me to be... I don't if that was me being rebellious subconsciously or what? But I wish I had more time to be creative and honestly I wish I could retake this class with more experience of my major under my belt... ((will elaborate more)). And my creativity well consists of quite a few things.. but mostly the color green and engery from my surroundings ((will also elaborate more)).

Last class

Last class was pretty touching. It was brought to my attention that I'm not the only one going through I creativity rut type of thing right now.

Monday, April 11, 2011

why in the fuck am I here?????

This is a question that I seem to like to think I know the answer to no matter what "here" is. I want to succeed... I want to be at peace.. I'm here now trying to get assignments out the way because it's a somewhat annoying process I gotta go through to get where I want to be... I'm here because it feels right. I'm here because I'm highly needed.. I refuse to go unless taken the fuck out... I'm here to create, to bring peace, to instill some type of moral code, to take in knowledge and regurgitate whatever the fuck however the fuck I interpreted it. I'm here because I have the will to be. And what is "here" exactly? Well "here" is quite a few things.

Fear recap no. 2

Sadly enough I couldn't make it to class. I really wanted to present my project as well, but enty who... So went through a couple of blogs to see what some people did. I was extremely attracted to this one Stephanie chick's blog because of the font and the colors then I saw what her fears were. Restaurants and pillows? Not expected.

I believe I really liked that one dude's fear about being old. I didn't really expect that from him. I can't really relate because I don't mind becoming old so long as I don't lose my mind. After listening to his presentation I was just thinking to myself... what can I do to prevent from becoming old mentally and physically.. and I decided to start taking care of myself.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Fear Recap

Last class was pretty cool, pretty interesting. I ate a cricket... and one girl said that bugs gave her heart burn. I don't know if she was jokin or not, but I definitely ended up getting a hint of heart burn after I ate that chocolate covered cricket. '_'

But enty who, I really enjoyed Jayson Fuckit's fear project. He had the balls to open up his blog to fellow classmates. At first it didn't seem as if anybody was gonna participate, but eventually people started shootin up there. I even went up their a couple of times. I believe his blog helped some people step outside their shells and write some creative shit on the spot in front of the whole class.

Honestly, overall, I enjoyed everybodys' projects because I learned something new about everybody who presented.. I thought it was pretty interesting to see that people became more talkative amongst themselves when a uncomfortable subject was brought up. xD

Fear %Love

Aaah.. Fear... and what not...

You know what... It has been said that the opposite of love is not hatred, but fear... And hatred? Well that's just a sub-emotion of fear.

When I heard that, some years back, I used to battle it. When I battled it I was pretty angry and trying to find loopholes through that statement because I hated my father. I was at the point in my life where I would be damned if I let somebody call my hatred for him fear.. And then the more I stopped being as angry the more I analyzed that statement with deep thought when it would appear in my mind every blue moon.. I realize that I wasn't afraid of him, I was more so afraid of his actions and how I would react should he ever try to control me. It makes sense to me now...

We humans tend to fear the unknown... And once we gather some type of idea of the "unknown" we hate it because we don't understand it. Whether that fear lies in the lack of knowledge of the target's unknown capability, or in what one might do if affected by that target, depends on the person who's dishin out the hatred... or should I say "who's gathering up the fear"? ... Hatred to me is now a sub-emotion of fear. I hated my father because he was an ignorant authoritarian; and because he was an ignorant authoritarian, I feared for my life in my own hands and eventually his life in my hands as well.
((Note to self: reassure the people that you didn't take his ass out)).

I'm glad to say that my hatred for him has dissipated.. It is no more; but I am sad to say that it sucks to know that I am capable of such hatred towards another undeserving being.

My fears on this earth are very few.. And even the very few that I have, boil down to one single fear..

When people see my project... I honestly don't know what to expect. Looking at it I almost don't want to present. xD

Fear Responses
So I thought it would be interesting to hear peoples' guesses of my biggest fear after I read this blog to them. Some of the guesses were pretty hilarious which I could definitely dig, but one person came really close. She guessed anger... and after she guessed that I just had to show the picture. I fear myself. I honestly do, but is it because of just my anger or is it because of ANY negative feeling or action/reaction that I inflict on myself?

Her guess really left me wondering... This is honestly something that I'm going to have to really analyze so I can work on my problems and come closer to peace and tranquillity. Peace within and around is what I desire the most. I love it, but sadly enough, things around me aren't quite ready for peace. At the same time that feeds the anger within. I really have to work on not letting such things get to me. I don't want to become desensitized or anything... I just want to have more of a tolerance... Tolerance and desensitization... are they the same?

Monday, March 7, 2011

Bliss Away a Moment's Time

((KcoRnfpholio <3))
When I read this assignment for the first time, I had to read it over like ten times for ten damn minutes. I took a break and came back to it and realized not only did I have to take some time away from this crazy ass schedule of mine to create something awesome out of a blissful moment, I had to do the dirty deed with a stuffed animal that was given out during class. Well I missed class but it was cool cause I have plenty of stuffed animals that I love and treasure. And I'm gonna be honest, at first, this assignment pissed me the fuck off. It only reminded me that even if I wasn't doin anything and just "relaxing" I couldn't relax! I was constantly thinkin about what had to be done! Dx

After a week of bull that I think I just suppressed at this moment, I was ready for this assignment... All up to that Monday I wasn't able to get any sleep. I guess I was stressin over shit and I'm still stressin over the fact that my usb may be gone forever. But I dunno, the whole creativity shit I aint feelin it. It's like when I lose something that is very precious to me like my stories I feel as if a part of me is lost forever.

((we sleepin and thangs))
So anyway I didn't get much sleep and my allergies were beatin my ass so I said "Fuck it. For the three hours that I have in between my damn classes I'm gonna take my beloved KcoRnfpholio to school with my purple blanky, find a nice place and sleep." Aaah, KcoRnfpholio, how he eases my damn soul. He brings a warm feeling to my heart and he shows that even a tough guy like me can have a soft spot. I've had him for years and he's been through some shit, but I replaced his eyes and he's still holdin on strong. I still have to sew his head back together though..

Anyway, sleep is my only release it seems these days. And real shit, it's not even a release cause what I think about follows me to my dreams. Funny. So that's what I did. Instead of going to the library like I had planned, I somehow ended up in room 255... During one of Matt Power's damn classes.. shockingly I still managed to go to sleep.. I just picked a lovely little dark spot underneath the computers, popped in a cough drop and went to sleep. My friend Blake kicked me in the ass a couple of times but hey it could have been worse, could have been the balls... and I'm pretty sure my friend T took pics.. -_- I'm not quite sure though... as she only sent me one.... .... ....... ... It was a nice moment of bliss before I had to return back to my hellish reality.

Either way it goes, I hope shit gets better and I still have some type of hope that I'll find my shit.  On a brighter note.. Ludwick is the shit. Very inspiring. Can't wait to get started on my capstone.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Class field trip

The part that I liked about the field trip was definitely the 3D room. Like that shit was live. It didn't make me want to become a master at 3-D but it definitely made me happy to see how far we've come. Hell I bet we've taken it further than that.

Inspiration ((steps? in between))-->Product

So I'm lookin at this drawing that I must have done during class and it pretty much explains the steps in which I think I take to get from inpiration to that shit that'll blow yo moufuckin mind aka the product.. Shit does this sentence even make sense??? -re-reads- Yeah. it does. But enty who. According to the picture, xD, I believe that my inspiration is the base. I really could kinda relate to the idea of realting the "equation" to conception.. But for some reaon when I think of an equation I think of something so lock-step and less organic. I believe refining and trials happen all throughout carrying out a concept and molding it into a project.














Which brings me to my next thingymabobber.

I created a galaxy in photoshop not too long ago and in the finish product I really wanted to incorporate some type of animation. I'm happy we were given two weeks. My inpsiration to creat the galaxy came from a tutorial I looked at during one of Beth's classes. I'm happy I was able to learn some animation in Ludwick's class. But enty who the pictures speak for themselves. Also its not the best flash file but it's okay for a begining animator. xD And it is not the final product.

Monday, February 7, 2011

(Sic) Days and the Placebo Effect

So I wanted to find a rule to break in my field of study.... when I read that we were supposed to be doin that instead of just breakin any old rule... Then I thought, "What rules period can I break without getting arrested?" and I came up with none... So then I decided ((upon getting sick with a cold)) that if I can't think of any rules to break... I can think of some codes of honor of mine that I could break.

Also Beth told me to do something with the leg that she gave me… I decided not to incorporate it in this project… but in a sense I guess I did.. because I broke her rule ((HACHA!)). I only did this because when that leg came into my possession, it became a personal goal to me to just unleash my world onto it, and with the pressure of having it “assigned” to me, I would have been more focused on impressing the thought of the project and trying to be creative than not focusing and just letting things flow. That said, Chlamydia will get her leg back ASAP this week. xD
But enty who, a few fields that I want to go into is tattooing, storytelling with graphic novels, and 2-D digital storytelling. When a client tells you what they want and you both have an agreed date to get work done you can’t just not work on the design because you feel pressured to do so. Being pressured to do so could possibly make you create something magnificent or it could very well destroy you, but in this field, you have to be able to work under the pressure of the client to get things done. By me not doing this leg when I indirectly agreed with Chlamydia that I would have this shit done by next Monday, I breached my contract with her and I could not produce a wonderful design for her when it came down to doing so. What I got out of breaking this rule? I guess more time to perfect what I did on her… other than that, this rule in my fields of study should not be broken without renegotiation.  

So yeah, I became sick with a cold after  Monday and I was just thinking about what I could do with that. It's a common code of courtesy to me to not get anybody sick on purpose cause that's just fucked up, but I have this friend who just automatically starts "getting sick" when he catches wind that I'm sick. -__- ((he has his reasons I guess. xD )) And I always tell him, "Look! It's in your damn head. I'm not even fuckin contagious right now! Dx " and he just sniffles and sniffles.. The shit is ridiculous honestly... so I got sick and I didn't tell him I was... and we made out... for many days straight ((with breaks in between of course))... And I observed him over the weekend and yeah he never got sick.

Was this a sick and twisted thing to do? Sure… Did I get anything out of this? Sure… What I got out of breaking this common code of courtesy was the satisfaction of proving to myself that it was in his damn head. When I get sick, I don’t normally spread it to others; even if I come into contact with the public. But yeah I strongly believe that the placebo effect can really have a strong influence on my friend's physical being...or what he doesn't know wont kill him.. something like that.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

seeing[1]How I want to.docx

My Mind is ((at this given time))
Something that looks like a shoe mark on the ceiling
The inside of my eyelid
Is a doorway to a prelude of many things to come..
I,
Look at myself in the mirror
Eyes staring back at me. I only see my soul, and I ask, “what can look better than this?” And I’m done.
Outer appearances sometimes, to me, are so meaningless in their demeanor
Dive into the deeper darker depths of someone’s mind to find
A higher form of light
The deeper we dwell, maybe the stranger
But the shallow world can be so lacking to me and as dull as a Green lid on blue recycle container           

Depending on who’s writing it and who perceives, the second subject in the above sentence can prove to be a better story.

"Join the faculty coalition"
You don’t want me to do that.
A nick on my cell phone case
Doesn’t matter, I still have a use for it; but in all honestly something more important than material… where’s it at?
Blah blah blah.. losing face, losing ground, I wonder as I wander all the time
I’ve been roaming across this vast land I call my mind for goin on 20 years and I still haven’t reached the end of the line?
Line? Ha I only said that shit to bust a rhyme.. My mind
Is an explosion that branches out like a non-linear narrative
If I speak it and you get hurt, don’t worry, I know how to take care of it.

If you take A Set of footprints that look like a dog footprint then take a slightly different concept and a give it a twist…?
What in the fuck do you get?
Shit… I have no clue, but when I put more than 1 second of THOUGHT(S) into it
I’ll get back to you.

That is…
If you’re still here...

A social security number... is to my identity as cumber is to cumber-
-some extra shit that I didn’t ask for… Numerology it makes sense
Cause the world is made of it.    

Archway at Herron <--- been there done that, wham bam thank ya ma’am, you couldn’t give me shit
Made my way to Informatics where I’m ten times the happy. And for real, this feeling is legit.

White label with the name Carrie Johnson
Who in the hell is that? Anyway, hope she has a good day
And that’s all I can really give as feedback…. That’s all that I can say.

Green steno notebook in janitors cart w/page that says "268 clean 274 dusted"
A job well done, never taken for granted, by me anyway… But some people are just plain inconsiderate, clean on the outside, but their internals are sick twisted and BUSTED.
But that doesn’t matter cause once again… “268 clean  274 dusted”

Some of the greater lessons learned in life
 are that Mysterious light
coming from a rectangle where you can’t see the light source
But once you follow it, you don’t care where it’s coming from, you just know you’re on the right course.
One religious person’s respect for a different religion… Think about it.

Spacebar, spacebar… there’s nothing much to write here.
Escape to a higher place of reattribute, the blankness of the page can be a loaded mind’s biggest fear
Biggest fear? What is yours? Why and how come you can’t conquer it?
My mind just rambles on and on, the longer I sit
And because of what I see goin on in society..
If I think too much—but mostly say enough—I can come off as someone with a remarkable case of anger and a hint of anxiety.
“SMH” SO MUCH HATE…tred…
Red, red, the color so powerful so flourishing, so nourishing with….
 Life..
Life lived so shortly right after it is hit with oxygen.
It dries out… it dies out… Becoming as brown as the earth in which it returns to.
What’s white is white, what’s black is black.. but in all honesty.. black is blue.
So what in the fuck does that mean to you? To me it means little to nothing
Only that we are so bent on outer appearances of the skin.

In the words of the great Erykah Badu, I am first a spiritual being
Only seeing my reflection in the vending machine
Some would say that the deepest things are adjacent to the meaningless

As meaningless as someone informing another that
There is a 25cent sticker on coke machines that tells you it includes tax
Yeah facts are facts
But do I really give a shit?
…Yeah maybe a little, who’s to ever really know?
Why is the hardest question to answer; some answers come quickly some questions die slow.

Rear entryway of IT looks like the Targus
Ha haaa, Targus? Or Tragus? Either way it goes, mi reality su reality… if it you want it.

My boyfriend proposing
Or girlfriend, whichever comes first
I can’t see people in genders… I think that type of vision is the worst.
Hence why I Went to the bathroom and saw my penis

I walk further and further into my mind and to my surprise… or my demise… I see
2 lockers side-by-side with the word flute on them… Really, now, what does this mean?
 I stare at the display before me, thinking about its story
 ((See “Travel into the Depths of My Mind” for some type of meaning
Whatever it is that you find, I warn you that there may be some shit in need of some serious non-serious deep throat cleaning.))

I shrug it off…I keep going, cause things happen for a reason.
And clothes aren’t the only things that change with the seasons.
Peoples’ attitudes, towards one another, change.
And what seemed so genuine, at first, now seems so fake and strange.
Speaking of strange
If my friend was named Jenny, and he was a she with a car then I guess..
I could say no one has seen My friend Jenny driving her car, it would be the end of the world, and we would skip the rest.
THE REST BEING:
1.       A pokey walker
2.       A man with a rolling luggage case leaving the bathroom w/out washing his hands
3.       A neon green backpack
4.       Something about Dr. King or racial equality
5.       A Cheezit bag in the trashcan
6.       A red truck in the parking lot with a burned out headlight
Any who… I bypass all that random shit that was etched and burned into my mind’s eye and exit this colorful black and white document that has ran well out of time…
3 trashcans lined up about 5 feet from each other
((Translation: The End))

Glasscocks, and Johsons, and Richard ((Dick)) lillies.. OH MY!

Yeah last class was alright. I would have enjoyed it more, but honestly I just wasn't feelin that whole week. The only break I had was the one that I got in my unofficial class "Game On!" with Matt Powers. Shit I still attempted to work on some homework, but yeah... it was still a nice break nonetheless.
Which brings me to the next topic of discussion. Rules and shit.
This semester I'm taking 20 credit hours. I dont know.. for some reason, in spring semester, I'm ready to just work and kick a lot of ass ((fall semester is the other way around)). But yea I wanted to take "Game On!" this semester and when I went to go sign up for it, a message popped up sayin I had reached the maximum number of credit hours that could be takin this semester. The shit slightly pisses me off... It infuriated me in the beginning; but I've digressed.
-sigh- If that damn rule would have never existed ((cause clearly I need some shit to tell me how many classes I can handle a semester)) I would be in that class officially. lmao. On the bright side, Matt is giving out achievements! Yanno, like trophies that gamers earn on PS3 and I'm goin for the "Perfect Attendance for a Class You're Not Even Enrolled in" achievement. So I get to get a kick out of that I guess. And trust... the system is the only reason why I cannot find a loophole and get into that class. xD 
But enty who.. til next time, O.V. and O.T.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Eggstropolio

So a very very long time ago ((it seems xD)) we were given the magnificent blank eggs. I remember this project when my friend, Sean, was taking this class and I also remembered how badly I wanted to steal his egg and color all over it because it was so blank.

See, I have a problem. When something blank—especially all white—is placed in my possession, I have to draw on it or color on it. SOMETHING has to be put on it. And it’s horrible because sometimes I do this shit subconsciously! It used to be so bad that I drew on other people’s body parts. Fortunately for us all, they enjoyed the designs and I at least had sense enough to stop myself and ask first. Eventually my work became so well known that people would ask me! –deep sigh- Oh glorious days.

At first, I was gonna just let the egg be and write about how not coloring the egg helped my addiction... ha ha.. this is a lie. xD I had no intention on NOT coloring that egg. That sucker was doomed from the get go. And by "get go" I mean since last semester when I saw Sean's egg. I vowed to color all over that luscious round canvas if and when Beth was gonna distribute dem pertty lil' eggies when I took her class... So it was done. I protectively harbored that egg as if it was my kid til I got home and colored all over him like a parent with no regard for CPS. O_o….I even accidentally dropped him on the laptop.. he's slightly cracked... No oozes, though; he's a trooper. And I say "him" because I named him Eggstropolio. Yea.. it got that deep.

But enty who! The deed is done. I went plum crazy… once again… and honestly I don’t think this problem of mine will ever cease to exist—I’ve come to terms. I'm fine. I at least stopped drawin on my jeans… But real talk, it’s been about a year since I last did that… The feeling’s still lying dormant like a ticking time bomb…or like some demon alien monkey spawn waitin to pop out and sell ice-cream to the kids... or something like that. xD But ‘til next time O.V.&O.T. :D

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

First Day of Classy Class! :D

So yeah first day of class was pretty cool. Man.. I need coffee.. But enty who! This semester my classes are 20 mins apart.. I'm short, so it takes a little bit ((more like forever)) to get to the Campus Center from the IT building, granted the buses and I don't cross paths. I was hungry..very very hungry, so I decided to try to go to the campus center and get something to eat. In high hopes that I would catch the bus so I could get to class on time, I took the chance. Boy... was I late. And to Beth's class, of all classes. In the back of my head I was like, "Hey there's gonna be enough seats left, cause her fall class was pretty small!" Man was a I wrong as hell! D: So I searched for the hidden classroom and when I found it, not to my surprise, the lights were off and, to my surprise, the class was full as fuck! xD In the middle of the class, there sat Beth. She waved me over to take a seat by her, and given that there were no seats left, it only felt natural to do so... besides I just walked my ass off from the campus center... ya damn skippy I was gonna get in where I fit in! Dx .. But yeah the conversations were pretty cool. We touched upon a subject that I used to have constant battles with for the better part of my life: what is considered to be art. Damn... this is a long paragraph... hm..

I already made it up in my mind that art is subjective as hell, and if it leaves an impression then I consider it art; whether its man made or not. And you know what let's say that art can only be considered art when it is man made. What can we call man made? Does something have to be physically shaped and crafted to be considered man-made? Or can we take it to a higher level and say that something can she reshaped and created emotionally? Example: We talked about a supernova being a work of art.. No, man didn't take all the elements required to create such a wonder, and physically make it, but the impression that it had on witnesses could allow man to deem it as a work of art, simply because of it's beauty and the impression that it left. On an emotional level, in deeper view of the wonder before him, man defined this breath taking phenomenon as a work of art. Nature created it, and who are we to say that art wasn't its intention? We don't know. Honestly to save myself from diving into a deep ass world of philosophical thoughts, I'm just gonna fall back and say that art is subjective. If somebody is captivated by something so ((more or less)) simple as a piece of a shoelace, I believe they have the right to deem it a piece of art. They took the emotion they had for it and saw it in a whole new light that no one else could. NEXT!

lol. So yeah class was pretty interesting, and I listened to everybody's opinion and respected them all. I can't wait to have more conversations in class like this. Also, to touch upon that music piece. I'm gonna be honest, I started picturing music playin in that video...so yeah he created music.. he just left it up to the imagination. xD But enty who, til next time. O.V. and O.T.

Expectations and Whatnot

First of all, welcome to the Jimi Hendrix ((Seeing...?))  Adjacent ((side)) Angles ((ways)) Experience! So for this semester I signed up for Beth's "Seeing Sideways" class. I'm pretty excited. Man, honestly it's been a while since I've taken philosophy; and that's one of my favortie subjects. D: I'm expecting that this class will be the MAS version of a philosophy class. I have a great feeling because this class challenges people to make something out of little to nothing and in my book... That's what's up. xD